My experience with the ACIM Workbook Lessons

03 Oct 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 276 – The Word of God is given me to speak.

Lesson 276 – The Word of God is given me to speak.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

And so it is.  I lean back into my meditation and am willing to know myself as God’s Word, God’s Light.  For a little while, seemingly nothing.  Then … a rhythmic expanding of “me” … like a sunburst widening and unwidening, expand, slightly contract, expand more, slightly contract … very pleasant, effortless.  And next … speed, a sense of speed, speed with pleasure–no fear.  “I” am still in shadow–none of this is happening in Light … yet.  And then I “hear”:  You are as pure and holy as Your Father.  You are the Word of God.  The “hearing” comes in the form of feeling–it is a felt-sense of knowing the meaning of these words.  And there is nothing more to say.

LESSON 276

The Word of God is given me to speak.

What is the Word of God?   “My Son is pure and holy as Myself.”  And thus did God become the Father of the Son He loves, for thus was he created.  This the Word His Son did not create with Him, because in this His Son was born.  Let us accept His Fatherhood, and all is given us.  Deny we were created in His Love and we deny our Self, to be unsure of Who we are, of Who our Father is, and for what purpose we have come.  And yet, we need but to acknowledge Him Who gave His Word to us in our creation, to remember Him and so recall our Self.

Father, Your Word is mine.  And it is this that I would speak to all my brothers, who are given me to cherish as my own, as I am loved and blessed and saved by You.

Let’s practice together!  Watch and hear Amy reading each ACIM Lesson on Youtube.  Also, check out Workin’ the Workbook, Amy’s online class which supports the ACIM Workbook practice. 

 

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02 Oct 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 275 – God’s healing Voice protects all things today.

Lesson 275 – God’s healing Voice protects all things today.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

I am you and you are me.  The ego perceives this as impossible and unbearable–the ego wants to experience itself as separate.  The problem with the ego is that it takes out unpleasant feelings on the “other guy”: it shames and blames another to avoid facing itself.  If the ego faced itself, it would find it is a figment of its own imagination–a picture of separation, but not a fact.  God’s Unified Love is the One Fact that is true.  And in that Fact is perfect safety, for not even protection is necessary as we realize we are All the Same One.

LESSON 275

God’s healing Voice protects all things today.

Let us today attend the Voice for God, which speaks an ancient lesson, no more true today than any other day.  Yet has this day been chosen as the time when we will seek and hear and learn and understand.  Join me in hearing.  For the Voice for God tells us of things we cannot understand alone, nor learn apart.  It is in this that all things are protected.  And in this the healing of the Voice for God is found.

Your healing Voice protects all things today, and so I leave all things to You.  I need be anxious over nothing.  For Your Voice will tell me what to do and where to go; to whom to speak and what to say to him, what thoughts to think, what words to give the world.  The safety that I bring is given me.  Father, Your Voice protects all things through me.

Let’s practice together!  Watch and hear Amy reading each ACIM Lesson on Youtube.  Also, check out Workin’ the Workbook, Amy’s online class which supports the ACIM Workbook practice. 

 

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01 Oct 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 274 – Today belongs to love. Let me not fear.

Lesson 274 – Today belongs to love. Let me not fear.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

Stop interpreting and start accepting God’s Way.  Honor my innocence and I honor your innocence.  Honor Innocence and  accept the love of God’s Holy Spirit, our Friend.  We are the same as our Friend and this is our redemption.  Illusions are shined away, fear is undone, special blessings illuminate the truth: that All Is as It always Is.  Amen.

LESSON 274

Today belongs to love.  Let me not fear.

Father, today I would let all things be as You created them, and give Your Son the honor due his sinlessness; the love of brother to his brother and his Friend.  Through this I am redeemed.  Through this as well the truth will enter where illusions were, light will replace all darkness, and Your Son will know he is as You created him.

A special blessing comes to us today, from Him Who is our Father.  Give this day to Him, and there will be no fear today, because the day is given unto love.

Let’s practice together!  Watch and hear Amy reading each ACIM Lesson on Youtube.  Also, check out Workin’ the Workbook, Amy’s online class which supports the ACIM Workbook practice. 

 

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30 Sep 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 273 – The stillness of the peace of God is mine.

Lesson 273 – The stillness of the peace of God is mine.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

The instructions are crystal clear.  All that is needed is the willingness.  It is helpful to realize that we don’t have to try, just allow.  And we don’t have to be motivated, just willing.  We don’t even have to be sincere, though sincerity will greatly accelerate our “progress” — progress back to where we’ve always been 🙂

Therefore, “The stillness of the peace of God is mine” is mine to return to all day today and every day.  The stillness of the peace of God is mine — even at this stage of the Workbook, three-quarters through, this can move from imploring to outrage to a quiet statement of fact.  That’s okay.  It doesn’t change the Truth: The stillness of the peace of God is mine; this peace is our inheritance, our legacy, our nature, our Source. Case closed 🙂

LESSON 273

The stillness of the peace of God is mine.

Perhaps we are now ready for a day of undisturbed tranquility.  If this is not yet feasible, we are content and even more than satisfied to learn how such a day can be achieved.  If we give way to a disturbance, let us learn how to dismiss it and return to peace.  We need but tell our minds, with certainty, “The stillness of the peace of God is mine,” and nothing can intrude upon the peace that God Himself has given to His Son.

Father, Your peace is mine.  What need have I to fear that anything can rob me of what You would have me keep?  I cannot lose Your gifts to me.  And so the peace You gave Your Son is with me still, in quietness and in my own eternal love for You.

Let’s practice together!  Watch and hear Amy reading each ACIM Lesson on Youtube.  Also, check out Workin’ the Workbook, Amy’s online class which supports the ACIM Workbook practice. 

 

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29 Sep 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 272 – How can illusions satisfy God’s Son?

Lesson 272 – How can illusions satisfy God’s Son?

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

Tears, used well, wash away illusions.  Tears wash away dark layers, cataract-like coverings dissolve, and Vision is revealed.  Tears are purifying baptisms. Today we pass illusions by, and tears become juicy with joy.  The truth belongs to us.  We are surrounded by God’s Love, forever still, forever gentle and forever safe.  We are as God created us … every only One of us.

LESSON 272

How can illusions satisfy God’s Son?

Father, the truth belongs to me.  My home is set in Heaven by Your Will and mine.  Can dreams content me?  Can illusions bring me happiness?  What but Your memory can satisfy Your Son?  I will accept no less than You have given me.  I am surrounded by Your Love, forever still, forever gentle and forever safe.  God’s Son must be as You created him. 

Today we pass illusions by.  And if we hear temptation call to us to stay and linger in a dream, we turn aside and ask ourselves if we, the Sons of God, could be content with dreams, when Heaven can be chosen just as easily as hell, and love will happily replace all fear.

Let’s practice together!  Watch and hear Amy reading each ACIM Lesson on Youtube.  Also, check out Workin’ the Workbook, Amy’s online class which supports the ACIM Workbook practice. 

 

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28 Sep 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 271 – Christ’s is the vision I will use today.

Lesson 271 – Christ’s is the vision I will use today.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

God’s memory is restored to me as I witness light instead of darkness.  I don’t have to like personalities … your personality and mine dissolve and intermingle as I choose to behold God’s light.  Christ’s vision and God’s light meet as I see you as your invisible essence briefly made visible in the spirit of unbuttoning a covering that never was.  Christ’s vision melts away all sense of separation and, undone, we are One.

LESSON 271

Christ’s is the vision I will use today.

Each day, each hour, every instant, I am choosing what I want to look upon, the sounds I want to hear, the witnesses to what I want to be the truth for me. Today I choose to look upon what Christ would have me see, to listen to God’s Voice, and seek the witnesses to what is true in God’s creation. In Christ’s sight, the world and God’s creation meet, and as they come together all perception disappears. His kindly sight redeems the world from death, for nothing that He looks on but must live, remembering the Father and the Son; Creator and creation unified.

Father, Christ’s vision is the way to You. What He beholds invites Your memory to be restored to me. And this I choose, to be what I would look upon today.

Let’s practice together!  Watch and hear Amy reading each ACIM Lesson on Youtube.  Also, check out Workin’ the Workbook, Amy’s online class which supports the ACIM Workbook practice. 

 

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28 Sep 2021 Comments Off on 6. What Is the Christ?

6. What Is the Christ?

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

In Part II of the Workbook, every 10 lessons we are given an instruction.  It comes in the form of a question.  There are 14 of these questions all together, and each one of them corresponds to a set of 10 lessons, and is to be read every day for the next 10 days along with our lesson for the day.  “What Is the Christ?” is the sixth instruction and goes with Lessons 271 – 280.

 6.  What Is the Christ?

Christ is God’s Son as He created Him. He is the Self we share, uniting us with one another, and with God as well. He is the Thought which still abides within the Mind that is His Source. He has not left His holy home, nor lost the innocence in which He was created. He abides unchanged forever in the Mind of God.

Christ is the link that keeps you one with God, and guarantees that separation is no more than an illusion of despair, for hope forever will abide in Him. Your mind is part of His, and His of yours. He is the part in which God’s Answer lies; where all decisions are already made, and dreams are over. He remains untouched by anything the body’s eyes perceive. For though in Him His Father placed the means for your salvation, yet does He remain the Self Who, like His Father, knows no sin.

Home of the Holy Spirit, and at home in God alone, does Christ remain at peace within the Heaven of your holy mind. This is the only part of you that has reality in truth. The rest is dreams. Yet will these dreams be given unto Christ, to fade before His glory and reveal your holy Self, the Christ, to you at last.

The Holy Spirit reaches from the Christ in you to all your dreams, and bids them come to Him, to be translated into truth. He will exchange them for the final dream which God appointed as the end of dreams. For when forgiveness rests upon the world and peace has come to every Son of God, what could there be to keep things separate, for what remains to see except Christ’s face?

And how long will this holy face be seen, when it is but the symbol that the time for learning now is over, and the goal of the Atonement has been reached at last? So therefore let us seek to find Christ’s face and look on nothing else. As we behold His glory, will we know we have no need of learning or perception or of time, or anything except the holy Self, the Christ Whom God created as His Son.

Remember, in Part II of the Workbook, every 10 lessons we are given an instruction.  It comes in the form of a question.  There are 14 of these questions all together, and each one of them corresponds to a set of 10 lessons, and is to be read every day for the next 10 days along with our lesson for the day.  “What Is the Christ?” is the sixth instruction and goes with Lessons 271 – 280.

Let’s practice together!  Watch and hear Amy reading each ACIM Lesson on Youtube.  Also, check out Workin’ the Workbook, Amy’s online class which supports the ACIM Workbook practice. 

 

 

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27 Sep 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 270 – I will not use the body’s eyes today.

Lesson 270 – I will not use the body’s eyes today.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

If I do not use the body’s eyes today, all that is left is the Everything of Nothing.  A forgiven world is a world washed clean by my Father, and His Vision sees only Love and Light.  The formless beauty of ever-expanding Love is pristine and exquisite, priceless and timeless.  The Word is No Word and words are nowhere to be found at the entrance to Heaven’s Gate.

LESSON 270

I will not use the body’s eyes today.

Father, Christ’s vision is Your gift to me, and it has power to translate all that the body’s eyes behold into the sight of a forgiven world. How glorious and gracious is this world! Yet how much more will I perceive in it than sight can give. The world forgiven signifies Your Son acknowledges his Father, lets his dreams be brought to truth, and waits expectantly the one remaining instant more of time which ends forever, as Your memory returns to him. And now his will is one with Yours. His function now is but Your Own, and every thought except Your Own is gone.

The quiet of today will bless our hearts, and through them peace will come to everyone. Christ is our eyes today. And through His sight we offer healing to the world through Him, the holy Son whom God created whole; the holy Son whom God created One.

Let’s practice together!  Watch and hear Amy reading each ACIM Lesson on Youtube.  Also, check out Workin’ the Workbook, Amy’s online class which supports the ACIM Workbook practice. 

 

 

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26 Sep 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 269 – My sight goes forth to look upon Christ’s face.

Lesson 269 – My sight goes forth to look upon Christ’s face.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

There is nothing to see but Light and the essence of Light.  We are each other and there is no other.  One and the same, we go our merry Way, uncovering and rediscovering the sameness of All.  Christ is but a word which means “anointed one” and that anointed one is every one of us.  The world is no-thing, and how we see the world is the path Home.  Feel your inner light, radiate your inner light, see your inner light in everything and everyone everywhere and you will see that what you see is a mirror of yourself, pure, innocent and whole: the Anointed One.

LESSON 269

My sight goes forth to look upon Christ’s face.

I ask Your blessing on my sight today.  It is the means which You have chosen to become the way to show me my mistakes, and look beyond them.  It is given me to find a new perception through the Guide You gave to me, and through His lessons to surpass perception and return to truth.  I ask for the illusion which transcends all those I made.  Today I choose to see a world forgiven, in which everyone shows me the face of Christ, and teaches me that what I look upon belongs to me, that nothing is, except Your holy Son.

Today our sight is blessed indeed.  We share one vision, as we look upon the face of Him Whose Self is ours.  We are one because of Him Who is the Son of Him Who is our own Identity.

Let’s practice together!  Watch and hear Amy reading each ACIM Lesson on Youtube.  Also, check out Workin’ the Workbook, Amy’s online class which supports the ACIM Workbook practice. 

 

 

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25 Sep 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 268 – Let all things be exactly as they are.

Lesson 268 – Let all things be exactly as they are.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

Let me not be seduced by guilt and loyalty oaths if things seem to happen which demand grief and sympathy.  Let me match my form to another’s kindly, but without believing anything painful has occurred.  Let me see through the illusion effortlessly today, because with Your Light there is nothing to see but Light, Whole, Holy and Unified.  Your Will is mine, therefore my will is not my own but expanding as a Whole Living Oneness which is tragedy-free, destruction-free, hassle-free.  I do not have the big picture, so let me leave that to You and be Your outpicturing until God’s Word fully awakens the Christ within.

LESSON 268

Let all things be exactly as they are.

Let me not be Your critic, Lord, today, and judge against You.  Let me not attempt to interfere with Your creation, and distort it into sickly forms.  Let me be willing to withdraw my wishes from its unity, and thus to let it be as You created it.  For thus will I be able, too, to recognize my Self as You created me.  In love was I created, and in love will I remain forever.  What can frighten me, when I let all things be exactly as they are?

Let not our sight be blasphemous today, nor let our ears attend to lying tongues.  Only reality is free of pain.  Only reality is free of loss.  Only reality is wholly safe.  And it is only this we seek today.

Let’s practice together!  Watch and hear Amy reading each ACIM Lesson on Youtube.  Also, check out Workin’ the Workbook, Amy’s online class which supports the ACIM Workbook practice. 

 

 

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